Release Checklist

Used by mpm to prepare releases.

Things to check:

Packaging message template:

To:     mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org
Subject:        Mercurial x.y tagged

Please update your package builds, thanks.

Generating a list of new contributors:

comm -2 -3 <(hg log -r '1.5::' --template '{author|person}\n' | sort -u) <(hg log -r '::1.5.4' --template '{author|person}\n' | sort -u)

-  ⇤ ← Revision 24 as of 2016-04-16 23:02:19 → 
  Size: 1156
  Editor: mpm
  Comment:
+   ← Revision 28 as of 2016-09-01 17:24:32 → ⇥
  Size: 1264
  Editor: KevinBullock
  Comment:
-Deletions are marked like this.
+Additions are marked like this.
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- * Tagged
 * Build from dist tarball passes tests
 * Signed
 * Pushed
 * Tarball uploaded
+ * Check for queued security patches
 * Run make-release
   * tag
   * sign
   * build release tarballs
 * Run post-release
   * push stable branch
   * upload signed release tarball to Pypi with twine
   * upload signed release tarball to mercurial-scm.org
   * update latest.dat file
   * clean-up build
-Line 16:
+Line 22:
- * Ping mercurial-packaging@selenic.com
 * WhatsNew updated
+ * Ping mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org
 * WhatsNew updated (changelog or changes script)
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+Line 27:
+ * Update irc topic
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+Line 29:
-Release message template:
+Packaging message template:
-Line 25:
+Line 32:
-To: 	mercurial <mercurial@selenic.com>
Bcc: 	lwn@lwn.net
Subject: 	Mercurial 1.x released!
+To: 	mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org
Subject: 	Mercurial x.y tagged
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+Line 35:
-Full details here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew

Available for download at:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.x.tar.gz

Binaries releases to follow shortly.
+Please update your package builds, thanks.

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